Rayno Life Science Portfolios: Biotechnology Stocks Should Outperform in Q4
Good Day for Biotech with a Strong Appetite for Two IPOs in A Choppy Market Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT) was up 29.33% to $19.40 on a public offering of 5M shares at $15 raising $75M. The Company is developing clinical stage therapeutics to treat chronic liver diseases. BofA MerrillLynch is...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio Biopharmaceuticals: ALXN, GILD, REGN, SGEN
Biotechnology Sector Continues Amazing Bull Run Up 40% YTD The Rayno Life Science Portfolio had nice gains today with 1% + moves from Biogen-Idec (BIIB) and Gilead Sciences (GILD) and with our bellwether ETF (IBB) eking out a 0.5% gain at its 52 week high. Since the bull market began in...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio Dx and Tools: EXAS, ILMN,TMO
Molecular Plays Lead Rayno Dx Focus Stocks Up Illumina (ILMN) rose 4.5% today on “talk” that Roche will increase its buyout offer to $60. Roche told Bloomberg that it does not comment on rumors. Illumina was added to the Rayno Portfolio in 2/2/09 at a price of $29 and the buy was...
Who Knows About the Bull Market in Biotech Stocks?
Is There No End to the Biotech Bull Market? Biotech ETFs NASDAQ Biotechnology (IBB) up 36% YTD and NYSE (FBT) up 42% YTD Around 1998 I remember vividly two market conversations: one from a Sun Micro sales executive telling me “there is no end to chip stocks”; the other from an...
Rayno Life Science Portfolio: AMGN, EXAS, NEOG, REGN Winners on a Risk-Off Day
Biotech Stocks Remain Resilient On A Bad Day The market took a nasty turn today with a 1.36% sell-off in NASDAQ and 1.05% for the S&P. The damage was across the board but the healthcare sector rose above the flack down only 0.11%. Large cap drug and biopharmaceutical stocks were green. Our...